Essays from the Times: Being a Selection from the Literary Papers which Have Appeared in that JournalJohn Murray, 1851 - 310 стор. |
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... court , and to the confusion and amaze- ment of all the spectators , the Duchess greeted her boy with a slap in the face that was heard in the next apartment . The Duc de Chartres married the King's natural daughter nevertheless . The ...
... court , and to the confusion and amaze- ment of all the spectators , the Duchess greeted her boy with a slap in the face that was heard in the next apartment . The Duc de Chartres married the King's natural daughter nevertheless . The ...
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... court of France , and threw it into panic and consternation . Other circumstances tended rapidly to establish and extend the Duke's unpopularity . On the 6th of July , 1710 , the daughter of the Duke of Orleans ( the infamous offspring ...
... court of France , and threw it into panic and consternation . Other circumstances tended rapidly to establish and extend the Duke's unpopularity . On the 6th of July , 1710 , the daughter of the Duke of Orleans ( the infamous offspring ...
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... court , insulted by the mob , the Duke of Orleans sought consolation amidst furnaces and alembics , and in orgies at which the Duchess de Berri presided - herself the incarnation of blas- phemy and unrestrained licentiousness . The com ...
... court , insulted by the mob , the Duke of Orleans sought consolation amidst furnaces and alembics , and in orgies at which the Duchess de Berri presided - herself the incarnation of blas- phemy and unrestrained licentiousness . The com ...
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... court by a specious etiquette , and the practices he pretended to abhor when they assumed the form of naked vice , passed unreproved in the taking garb of knightly gallantry . Upon the death of Louis XIV . the court threw off the ...
... court by a specious etiquette , and the practices he pretended to abhor when they assumed the form of naked vice , passed unreproved in the taking garb of knightly gallantry . Upon the death of Louis XIV . the court threw off the ...
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... court vigilantly watching the chances that might transfer to him the prize to which his family looked in vain for years , and reached at last only to grasp , and then renounce it ; making his game , and preparing for contingencies ...
... court vigilantly watching the chances that might transfer to him the prize to which his family looked in vain for years , and reached at last only to grasp , and then renounce it ; making his game , and preparing for contingencies ...
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Сторінка 126 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I...
Сторінка 263 - The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man. It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.
Сторінка 28 - Could I have rewarded these services I would not now call upon my country ; but as that has not been in my power, I leave Emma, Lady Hamilton therefore a legacy to my king and country, that they will give her an ample provision to maintain her rank in life.
Сторінка 269 - The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
Сторінка 145 - ... most timid writer or artist, who found himself for the first time among Ambassadors and Earls. They will remember that constant flow of conversation, so natural, so animated, so various, so rich with observation and anecdote ; that wit which never gave a wound ; that exquisite mimicry which ennobled, instead of degrading...
Сторінка 28 - Then in sight of the combined fleets of France and Spain, distant about ten miles. " Whereas the eminent services of Emma Hamilton, widow of the Right Honourable Sir William Hamilton, have been of the very greatest service to my king and country, to my knowledge, without ever receiving any reward from either our king or country.
Сторінка 29 - I have called two or three of our fresh ships round, and have no doubt of giving them a drubbing." "I hope," said Nelson, "none of our ships have struck ? ' ' Hardy answered, '
Сторінка 272 - Grote the compliment which he pays to others, "the poets, historians, orators, and philosophers of Greece, have been all rendered both more intelligible and more instructive to the student, and the general picture of the Grecian world may now be conceived with a degree of fidelity which, considering our imperfect materials, it is curious to contemplate.
Сторінка 194 - To Jeffrey as an individual I shall ever be ready to show every kind of individual courtesy; but of Judge Jeffrey of the Edinburgh Review I must ever think and speak as of a bad politician, a worse moralist, and a critic, in matters of taste, equally incompetent and unjust.
Сторінка 23 - I hope some day to have the pleasure of introducing you to Lady Hamilton, she is one of the very best women in the world ; she is an honour to her sex.